Tim, Two Lobsters, and Commercial Lobster Trap Lobster season has just opened here in California, The T-ANN and other commercial lobster boats are raking in tons of beautiful lobsters like these. Tim Armstrong (shown above) is a seasoned fisherman, and he is already enjoying a good year catching these delicious bugs! The guys let me and Bonzo pose with a live lobster (see photo below). Lucky for them that Spiny Lobsters don't have the big front pinchers like the American lobsters.
Gigi, Bonzo (the dog), and One Live LobsterOther fun facts... Also known as California Spiny Lobster, Rock Lobster, Red Rock Lobster or Crayfish, and Kreef California. Spiny Lobsters are distributed all along the California coast. California Spiny lobsters live in a variety of habitats on the coast, in water from 1 foot to approximately 600 feet deep,ranging from shallow rock pools, out to the continental shelf. There is no evidence of mass migration of the California Spiny Lobster; however, movements of up to 89 miles have been reported, as well as shorter distances from inshore to deeper offshore waters. In many locations Spiny Lobsters show little movement. California Spiny Lobsters are carnivorous and eat molluscs, small crustaceans, echinoderms, and other benthic invertebrates. Major predators of both adult and juvenile California Spiny Lobsters are octopus, gummy sharks, fish such as southern rock cod, flathead, wrasse, morwong, conger eels, lingcod, and me!
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